A master portrayer of extreme situations and characters, Dostoevsky explanied
that such depictions truly reveal the human condition. Indeed, in Dostoevsky's
Crime and Punishment what the reader most remembers is the intensity of the
sweating, disturbed murderer, during his planning of the murder, during his
planning of the murder, during the brutal act itself, and during his
psychological breakdown that occurs afterwards. While Dostoevsky has been
compared to such greats as Joseph Conrad, Flannery O'Connor, and Charles
Dickens, few have created a work that reaches such a peak intensity and sustains
it like a hell from which one cannot escape. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL
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